Christhmus (Christopher Chu) Presence
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT, APCC (she, we)
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3 Endorsed
San Francisco, CA 94114
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Offering CA-based Telehealth ideal for BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, &/or People of Color, including white-passing & mixed-race BIPOC. Also welcoming Families & Partnerships with 1 or more BIPOC in regular attendance. I offer Xychotherapy: psychotherapy that recognizes therapeutic experiences existed long before psychotherapy was invented, and incorporates psychotherapy into global therapeutic wisdoms and practices.
Guiding pillars include Liberation-, Narrative-, Somatic-Psychologies, Trauma Therapy, Ancestral-Spiritual Practices, Expressive Arts, & more. Tools held include Meditation, Athletic Coaching, EMDR-inspired Brainspotting, Somatic Abolition, MDMA therapy (integrations only). Presently training in Ketamine Therapy with Journey Clinicial
My first name is pronounced like the holiday, and is spelled with an "isthmus", or "a narrow strip of land or tissue, that joins two larger pieces of land or anatomy". This highlights my connection to relationship, words, land, embodiment, and even Winter Solstice. My last name furthers holiday vibes, word play, and relationship to the here-and-now.
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Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $200
- Couple Sessions $250
- Pay by American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa
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Christhmus (Christopher Chu) Presence
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT, APCC
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Prelicense by State of California / AMFT125037 Supervised by Shawana J. Booker, LCSW (California / LCSW29165) Christhmus (Christopher Chu) Presence
- In Practice for 5 Years
- License: Board of Behavioral Sciences 9411 / 2020
- Certificate from EMDR-Inspired Brainspotting Clinician 2019
- Attended California Institute of Integral Studies, MA: Integral Counseling Psychology, Graduated 2020
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Christhmus (Christopher Chu) Presence
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT, APCC
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Anxiety
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
Expertise
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Alcohol Use
- Ancestral reclamation & inheritance; Ritual
- Anger Management
- Antisocial Personality
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Bisexual
- Career Counseling
- Child
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Pain
- Chronic Relapse
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Death, loss, & dying; Structural marginalization
- Depression
- Developmental Disorders
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Eating Disorders
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Gambling
- Geriatric and Seniors
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Intellectual Disability
- Internet Addiction
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Obesity
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Thinking Disorders
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Video Game Addiction
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
Do these issues align with your needs? Email
Christhmus (Christopher Chu) Presence
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT, APCC
3 Endorsements
Client Focus
Age
Preteen ,
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals ,
Couples ,
Family
Communities
Bisexual Allied ,
Body Positivity ,
Cancer ,
Deaf Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
Immuno-disorders ,
Intersex Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Non-Binary Allied ,
Open Relationships Non-Monogamy ,
Queer Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied ,
Sex Worker Allied ,
Sex-Positive, Kink Allied ,
Single Mother ,
Transgender Allied ,
Veterans
I also speak
Basic Japanese ,
Intermediate Spanish
Religion
Other Spiritual or Religious Affiliations
Age
Preteen ,
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals ,
Couples ,
Family
Communities
Bisexual Allied ,
Body Positivity ,
Cancer ,
Deaf Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
Immuno-disorders ,
Intersex Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Non-Binary Allied ,
Open Relationships Non-Monogamy ,
Queer Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied ,
Sex Worker Allied ,
Sex-Positive, Kink Allied ,
Single Mother ,
Transgender Allied ,
Veterans
I also speak
Basic Japanese ,
Intermediate Spanish
Religion
Other Spiritual or Religious Affiliations
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Brainspotting
- Christian Counseling
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dance Movement Therapy
- Eclectic
- Emotionally Focused
- Energy Psychology
- Existential
- Experiential Therapy
- Expressive Arts
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Gestalt
- Honoring death, dying, & loss with ritual & nature
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Jungian
- Multicultural
- Narrative
- Person-Centered
- Play Therapy
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Sandplay
- Self reclamation of ancestral inheritance
- Somatic
- Strength-Based
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
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Christhmus (Christopher Chu) Presence
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT, APCC
Groups
Pay-As-You-May Asian Adult Teleherapy in CA
Centering Asian experiences, pandemic, & re-balancing in community amidst imbalances of society. 1 session/week, 90-minutes, 10 sessions, online video chat, CA Residents, Tuesdays 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST, 8-10 people, co-facilitated, ages 21+, first two weeks accepting members or until capacity reached; waitlist thereafter, donation-based. See tinyurl.com/Group4AAPI for details
Expertise
Peer Relationships
Self Esteem
Trauma and PTSD
Types of Therapy
Trauma Focused
Age
Adults
Group Meets
Every Tue 6 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.
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Pay-As-You-May BIPOC Adult Teleherapy in CA
*BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, &/or People of Culture--mixed race & white-passing BIPOC welcomed. Centering BIPOC experiences, pandemic, & re-balancing in community amidst imbalances of society. 1 session/week, 90-minutes, 10 sessions, online video chat, CA Residents, Tuesdays 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM PST, 8-10 people, co-facilitated, ages 21+, first two weeks accepting members or until capacity reached; waitlist thereafter, donation-based. See tinyurl.com/Group4BIPOC for details
Expertise
Peer Relationships
Types of Therapy
Trauma Focused
Age
Adults
Group Meets
Every Tue 8 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.
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Location
Additional Location
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Christhmus (Christopher Chu) Presence
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT, APCC
Last Modified: 18 Apr 2024